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Most Recent in Politics:

1Parents: Schools Using Transgender Suit As Cover to Discriminate

2The Texas Miracle #24: Rick Perry’s Last Dance

3Hooks: Dems are Missing Their Chance to Give Obama His Transformational Legacy

4Loon Star State: Unemployment Benefits

5Paxton: ‘No Evidence’ Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Mitigate Climate Change

6Texas Association of Business Comes Out Against Anti-Trans ‘Bathroom Bills’

Most Recent in Environment:

1Paxton: ‘No Evidence’ Obama’s Clean Power Plan Will Mitigate Climate Change

2Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

3Feeling the Burn in Big Bend

4Outgoing State Rep. Jim Keffer on Trump, Climate Change and Being a Tea Party Target

5The Texas Miracle #22: Dancing with the Snark (and Rick Perry)

6Climate Science ‘Skeptic’ Lamar Smith Claims to Aid Scientists in Latest Crusade

Most Recent in Border:

1Eddie Canales on Saving Migrant Lives in Brooks County

2Report: Mexico’s Border Crackdown Sends Migrants into Dangerous Territory

3Hundreds Gather to Remember the 1966 Texas Farmworkers’ March

4In Texas, Trump Signals a Plan for Victory in Defeat

5Trump Takes Texas, in Photos

6Texas Relents on Birth Certificates for Children of Undocumented Immigrants

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1South Texas School Security Guard Arrested After Allegedly Throwing Girl to Ground

2Lege Hearing Gets Tense Over Racial Profiling

3Texas Judge Dismisses Trans Prisoner’s Lawsuit Seeking Gender Confirmation Surgery

4Citing Observer Report, Senators Vow Stronger Protection for Texans Under Guardianship

5Texas Activists Protest Modern-Day ‘Slavery’ in Prisons

6How a Tiny ‘Startup’ in Houston ISD is Reinventing Discipline for Thousands of Students

Most Recent in Education:

1Texas State Quietly Removes Confederate Monument

2Some Texas Schools are Still Fighting Decades-Old Desegregation Orders

3Parents: Schools Using Transgender Suit As Cover to Discriminate

4South Texas School Security Guard Arrested After Allegedly Throwing Girl to Ground

5Hostile Takeover

6Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

Most Recent in Health Care:

1The Texas Miracle #23: She Fought the Law — and the Law Lost

2The Texas Miracle #22: Dancing with the Snark (and Rick Perry)

3Op-Ed: Abortion Access and Trans Health Care Are Bound Together in Texas

4Crisis Pregnancy Center Among Texas Repro Health Contractors

5Oil and Gas Smog Projected to Cause 140,000 Asthma Attacks in Kids

6The Texas Miracle #18: Our Best 40 Minutes (So Far)

Most Recent in The Interview:

1The Interview: Paul Quinn College’s Michael Sorrell

2The Interview: Judge John Dietz on Texas’ School Finance Crisis

3The Interview: Frank Jackson

4The Interview: Cecile Richards

5The Interview: Anthony Graves

6The Interview: Elliott Naishtat

Most Recent in Books:

1All the Wrong Moves

2In ‘Houston on the Move,’ the Bayou City Wakes Up

3Good as Gone Treats Women Mysteriously Like People

4Meet the Texas Scholar Who Unearthed Walt Whitman’s 19th Century Clickbait

5Send Us Your Stories, Writers

6Hiking the Keystone XL Pipeline and Hoping for Dialogue

Most Recent in Postcards:

2Feathering Their Nest

3The Business of Burying Horses

4Fragile Species

5Rotten Apples in Donna ISD

6Holding Back the Flood

Most Recent in Essay:

1How Ali Inspired a Generation of Chicano Activists

2David Bowie in Aztlán

3The 66 Percent: Erasing Mexican Americans in the United States

4The New Migrants

5How the 1% Gardens

6Our Blue Period

Most Recent in Eye on Texas:

1Eye on Texas: TX Open Swim

2Eye on Texas: Blessing of the Hands in San Antonio

3Eye on Texas: Austin’s Chapels

4Eye on Texas: Portico Tejas

5Eye on Texas: Xiomara, a Domestic Worker Who’s ‘Invisible in Austin’

6Eye on Texas: Uncertain, Texas

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Poem: ‘Whitewashing’

2Poem: ‘Rice and Beans’

3Poem: ‘I Could Have a Thousand Husbands’

4Poem: Aleppo Oslo Jos Boston

5Poem: ‘Poets And Antidepressants’

6Poem: ‘While I Was Trying to Avoid Falling in Love’

Tag Archives: JFK

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by Ronnie Dugger

From the Archives: The Last Voyage of Mr. Kennedy

Fri, Nov 22, 2013 |

Observer founding editor Ronnie Dugger chronicles President Kennedy's historic tour and tragic end in Texas. ...Read More

Members of the Warren Commission present their report on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy to President Lyndon Johnson in the White House Cabinet Room, Washington, D.C.

Skeptics Gone Wild: Navigating America’s Conspiracy Theory Culture

Mon, Nov 18, 2013 |

There’s no longer anything especially irrational about believing that shadowy actors are subverting American democracy. ...Read More

Martin Luther King

by Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis

The Night Martin Luther King Jr. Came to Dallas

An excerpt from Dallas 1963.

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Mon, Oct 28, 2013 |

In their new book, Dallas 1963, Bill Minutaglio and Steven L. Davis examine the city’s culture in the early 1960s and the events that led up to JFK’s...Read More

Dallas 1963

by Peter Voskamp

A New JFK Canon Carries the Torch

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Tue, Oct 8, 2013 |

The 50th anniversary of President Kennedy’s assassination spurs a slew of books on the man, his presidency and his untimely demise in Dallas....Read More

UT-Arlington Remembers Kennedy Visit in Photos

by Meagan Solis

Leave a comment | Fri, Sep 27, 2013

November 22, 1963 became one of the darkest days in American history—and in Texas—when President John F. Kennedy was assassinated during his visit to Dallas...Read More

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by Robert Leleux

Lady Bird in her Own Words

Wed, Feb 13, 2013 |

Michael L. Gillette’s Lady Bird Johnson: An Oral History chronicles Mrs. Johnson’s journey from deep East Texas to the White house and beyond....Read More

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